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About Janie Crouch
For readers who still believe in heroes.
USA TODAY bestselling author Janie Crouch writes what she loves to read: passionate romantic suspense.
Janie recently relocated with her husband and their four teenagers to Germany (due to her husband's job as support for the U.S. Military), after living in Virginia for nearly 20 years. When she's not listening to the voices in her head (and even when she is), she enjoys engaging in all sorts of crazy adventures (200-mile relay races; Ironman Triathlons, treks to Mt. Everest Base Camp) traveling, and movies of all kinds.
Her favorite quote: "Life is a daring adventure or nothing." ~ Helen Keller.
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Blog postWavy Bollinger has been a part of my Linear Tactical series since book 1. Finally, FOURTEEN BOOKS LATER she gets her own story.
And Ian DeRose is definitely a great alpha hero to have a story with.
Grab Code Name: ARIES today!
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Ian DeRose. Code Name: ARIES.
Zodiac Tactical is my company. We guard, protect, rescue…eliminate the threat when nobody else can.
I’ve always made sure there was nothing in my life I couldn’t live without.
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Blog postI'm so thrilled that BABY, narrated by my wonderful friend Brandon Short (he introduced me to my hubby—they were roommates back in the day!) is now available on audiobook!
Grab this great one now on AUDIBLE (other vendors coming soon)
Baby. Don’t let the name fool you.
Being Linear Tactical's easiest-going younger brother has never been a problem for Baby Bollinger. He likes people. He likes laughing. He likes life.
But he has secrets buried deep under his charm1 year ago Read more -
Blog postThe Janie Crouch store is NOW OPEN! Signed paperbacks, apparel, mugs... And the "I believe in heroes, but I can save myself" gear is a romance reader's dream!
Start your shopping today!
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Blog postThe Great Pyramids of Giza! Egypt has always been #1 on my Bucket List of things to experience. So I was thrilled when the opportunity arose for us to go! We traveled to Cairo first, seeing the pyramids, Sphinx and Egyptian Museum (King Tut's treasures). Then went on to Luxor to see the ancient ruins, temples and tombs. Finally ended our trip at the resort town of Marsa Alam on the Red Sea.
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Blog postFAQs about My Writing Process
1. How do you come up with your ideas?
Honestly, ideas come from me different ways. Usually it starts from ONE THING and grows
from there. The ONE THING can be a picture, a song, a quote, a scenario that pops up in my head...then grows and I start wrapping more and more plot around it until I finally have a story. (see info about my pre-writing process HERE). I also get a lot of ideas from TV, books, movies, current events, talks with my k3 years ago Read more -
Blog postEver wonder what I do BEFORE I sit down and start putting words in at my computer?
A lot of plotting and planning!
Many authors call themselves "pantsers" because they write by the seat of their pants. They sit down and just let the story take them where it will.
That is definitely NOT my process. I like to plot things out pretty carefully before I actually start writing.
I liken it to the fact that I would not start driving across the United States wi3 years ago Read more -
Blog postI SURVIVED THE FIRE & ICE ULTRAMARATHON!
Barely.
Until I have time to get something more permanent up, here are the daily reports I made on the race:
Day 0 - https://www.facebook.com/janiecrouch/posts/2905758812772757
Day 1 - https://www.facebook.com/janiecrouch/posts/2908126402535998
Day 1 Videos (tent nearly blowing down) - https://www.facebook.com/janiekingcrouch/posts/3156284767735350
Day 2 - https://www.facebook.com/janiecrouch/posts/2913 years ago Read more -
Blog postMy partner in crime for the FIRE & ICE ULTRAMARATHON is definitely the best part about this adventure.
This probably won't be exciting to anyone, but I wanted to give proof of the long line of bad-decision-making we come from. ❤️
Megan and I have known each other for over 20 years. We lived in the same neighborhood when our kids were young...her daughters were the first (and only) people to ever call me a princess. To this day, I'm still Princess Janie to them.
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Blog post(if for some reason you don't know, I'm running the Fire & Ice Ultramarathon Aug 26-31, 2019. Read more about the race here) This photo showed up on my Facebook news feed the other day:
My first thought was: that's pretty profound.
Okay, actually, my first thought was: where are the opening quotation marks?
But my second thought was, that's pretty profound. (Well...after wondering if that was actually the best picture for that quote? Is the guy about to jump?)
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Blog postY’all. I joke a lot about this race…about vodka and toilets and toenails.
Let me tell you something I don’t joke about.
Have you ever gotten that call in the middle of the night? The one no one ever EVER wants to get?
My friend Megan messaged me in the middle of the night in November 2017, just a month before we were to leave to go to Everest Base Camp, with the news that her 15-year-old stepson had died in an ATV accident.
You guys. I’m a mom of 4, so you know3 years ago Read more -
Blog post1. Tell me what exactly this is again... It's a 150 mile (250 km) race across Iceland, taking place Aug 26-31, 2019. Technically, it's what's called a multi-stage, self-sustaining ultramarathon.
What do those words actually mean? That it's 1) multiple days, 2) carrying our own stuff in a backpack, and 3) a crap-ton of miles.
The route is sort of secret because the race coordinators don't know what it will be until they get on site in Iceland (which they did this week) and see3 years ago Read more -
Blog postWanted to share this because I think it's important to include both the positive and negative parts of training for something like the FIRE & ICE ULTRAMARATHON. And the last couple of weeks almost everything having to do with the race have been...bad. Like, really bad.
My bestie Megan (my Trouble Twin also doing the race with me) officially reached the part of the training and preparation where everything just sucks.
Everything hurts.
Everything causes a panic atta3 years ago Read more -
Blog postOne of the biggest challenges of the Fire & Ice Ultramarathon is calories and nutrition. I have to carry in my pack enough food for walking/running 25 miles/day for six days. All that will end up making up about 1/3 of my pack weight (around 8.5 lbs).
The Fire & Ice race coordinators provide us all our water (hot and cold) as well as the tents. Everything else gets carried in the packs. As you can imagine, carrying all your food for both 6 days of camping, plus running/walking3 years ago Read more -
Blog post10 weeks out from my Fire & Ice Ultramarathon. I spent some time this week working out everything that has to fit in my pack.
Spoiler alert: it wasn't pretty.
Here's a video of it all before I tried to pack it all:
https://video.wixstatic.com/video/913379_2cfc6293ee784a0b8f51d19631e755eb/1080p/mp4/file.mp4 Required Kit List
1. Backpack capable of carrying all compulsory items
2. Sleeping bag capable of withstanding nigh time temperatures of 0 degrees.3 years ago Read more -
Blog postA friend sent me this:
This is like a literal picture of me. I am the worst in the world about stretching. I start running and then run and then stop running. Anything else has always been a waste of time to me.
But, alas, I'm not 30 any more. (For the record, I'm 46). So my body no longer does what I want it do just because I want it to do it.
Sigh.
I am trying to do a little more due stretching due to my tibialis anterior tendonitis foot stuff (and because I d3 years ago Read more -
Blog postThe 150-mile (over 6 days) Fire & Ice Ultramarathon is coming up in just 3 months.
So...I've run literally 1000s of miles in the last decade of racing/stupidity and except for a few minor falls, have never had any injuries.
But training with a backpack (weighing between 12-20 lbs) for the upcoming Fire and Ice. 250km Iceland's Toughest Foot Race in August changed my gait and how I strike the ground with my left foot.
And it hurt.
When it started hurting, I3 years ago Read more -
Blog postAugust 26-31 will find me in Iceland taking part of the Fire & Ice Ultramarathon.
150 miles over six days. Carrying my supplies with me (except for water and tent--the race staff provide that) The details. Five months out:
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Blog postI started 2018 basically fleeing Nepal (after our Everest trek), thankful to get my daughter out in one piece, and facing this fact: Man, I am capable of making some pretty dumb choices.
’Nuff said.
Professionally, 2018 was a huge year. I wrote 8 books, released 7. Four of those releases were with a traditional publishing company. The other three were through a publishing company I started because I realized I could make a lot more money doing it myself.
Of course, at4 years ago Read more -
Blog postI've been so very blessed to travel all over the world, and my adventures have undoubtably influenced my writing. Here is one of the most gorgeous places I've been... Capri, which is an island off the coast of Italy. This is a shot from a boat trip the fam and I took.
My trip to Capri influenced the character Joe Matarazzo, a millionaire playboy turned hostage negotiator in OVERWHELMING FORCE, part of my Omega Sector: Critical Response series. Joe has travelled to stunning locales (in4 years ago Read more -
Blog postDay 11-12 - GETTING HOME
To say the end of the trek didn't turn out the way we'd planned is a huge understatement. Even though it would've been difficult physically, I wish we could've all hiked the full three days back down. Although the going down isn't as life-altering as the going up, it's still an important part of the journey. . . it gives you a chance to process exactly what you've accomplished, to realize you have so much to be proud of. A victory to celebrate.
Not to5 years ago Read more
Titles By Janie Crouch
The one with the easy smile.
Zodiac Tactical has been the biggest part of my life for the past three years. We guard, protect, rescue...eliminate the threat when nobody else can. And I’ve always been at the front lines—first to help in whatever way was needed.
Until I took a bullet to the chest.
Now everybody’s worried about me. So I’m sent on what’s supposed to be an easy mission—gathering intel about some potential bad guys while on a tropical island for a wedding. Lay low, blend in, catch a little tan while getting the job done. Can’t be too hard.
Until I defend the bride’s adorable sister against some cruel cattiness and the next thing I know I’m mentioning I’m her fiancé.
Surprise.
When the mission takes a turn for the much more dangerous, and my fiancée finds herself in the middle of it, I will do whatever it takes to keep her safe. My wounds may have knocked me down, but a Navy SEAL, even former one with a couple extra bullet holes, always gets back up.
My code name is Libra. Don’t let the easy smile fool you.
Still waters run deep.
I’m the leader of Zodiac Tactical’s guardian unit. We’re the bodyguards—the ones who stand toe to toe with danger and refuse to give any ground. We protect people who need it most.
But what if who needs it most is a spoiled diva?
I don’t normally take on movie stars. I don’t have time for the drama nor their self-centered lifestyle. If they don’t take their safety seriously, how can I?
But there’s something different about Alyse Peterson. On the outside America’s Glamor Princess is everything I want to avoid. But behind her perfect smile and sapphire eyes is a heartbreak she’s hiding from everyone.
She has secrets. And a stalker willing to kill to get to them.
My code name is Pisces. And anybody who want to get to her, will have to go through me.
Lucas Everett knows that firsthand. It's why he and his former Navy SEAL brothers created the Resting Warrior Ranch.
They aren’t doctors, but they can offer the healing freedom of their Montana range. And they specialize in training service and emotional support animals to help sooth even the worst emotional scars.
Usually, soldiers show up at their door. But this time it's Evelyn Taylor—a soldier in a very different kind of war.
She's as skittish as one of the horses Lucas gentles. But he’s learned how to be patient with animals, and he’s more than happy to be patient with this quiet beauty too.
When Evelyn’s past nightmares show up in Montana, she thinks she has to run again, but Lucas isn’t going to let that happen. He’s protected his country against the worst types of threats, and he’ll protect her too.
She’s met the rancher, but now she’s about to meet the SEAL.
Grant Carter knows that fact intimately. The shrapnel sitting on his spine from an IED is a daily reminder.
But the constant pain won’t stop him from working at the Resting Warrior Ranch, training service and emotional support animals to help people with PTSD—something else he’s intimately familiar with.
He’ll fight for those who can’t fight for themselves.
When his neighbor, shy veterinarian Cori Jackson, is humiliated by her ex-boyfriend for things she’d like to experiment with in bed, Grant is more than happy to show her real men aren’t threatened by an adventurous spirit.
The more time he spends with her, the more he realizes the literal girl-next-door is the one for him. And when Cori finds herself in the middle of a dangerous conspiracy surrounding the animals she treats, Grant will make sure she makes it out alive.
He's a fighter. Was one in the Navy SEALs and still is one today. And he’ll fight for Cori.
Even if it costs him everything.
Harlan Young knows that from personal experience. Walking away from Grace Townsend, even with the best intentions and no other choice, still haunts him to this day.
So when he had the chance to return to Montana, and be part of something as special as the Resting Warrior Ranch, he took it. Here he can help train service and emotional support animals for former soldiers with PTSD.
And maybe, just maybe, convince Grace to give him a second chance.
He never expected that second chance to be in the form of a fake marriage in order to save the land she loves so much. But he’ll do it, as well as help fight the danger closing in on her. She thinks she’s alone, but she’s wrong.
She knew him as a boy, but now he's a man. And real men don’t run.
The stars aren’t wrong.
Zodiac Tactical is my company. It’s run by those I’ve chosen for their skills and ability to outmaneuver adversaries. We guard, protect, rescue…assist on the side of the angels.
We eliminate the threat when nobody else can.
My pastime of putting bad guys out of business has created powerful enemies, but I’ve always made sure there was nothing in my life I couldn’t live without.
Until now. Until her.
She’s not a warrior, she’s an artist. She sees colors everywhere and greets the world—and me—with a smile. I knew I shouldn’t come near her from the beginning, but she’s everything I’ve never been able to be.
And now a monster has taken her, caged her, to get even with me.
My code name is Aries. And I will burn the world to the ground to get her back.
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USA Today and Publisher's Weekly bestselling author Janie Crouch brings the long-awaited follow-up to her Linear Tactical series: Zodiac Tactical—the team of protectors who stand at the front line in the face of danger. Come meet Ian DeRose, the safeguarding warrior who will do anything to defend gentle Wavy Bollinger.
"Anything makes you nervous, brings back bad memories—you tell me right away. You don't try to power through anything. We go as slow as you need."
Meet Zac Mackay. Military codename: Cyclone.
He's a widower, a protector, a hero.
And the person who could destroy Anne's life.
Doctor Anne Griffin is back in Oak Creek, Wyoming, only because she has no other options. Here, she was always the shy, stuttering girl, invisible to everyone.
Except Zac Mackay. The very reason she left in the first place.
Zac’s years in Special Forces taught him survival skills, and he’s created a company—Linear Tactical—to teach those skills to others, so they never have to live in fear.
Then why is Annie, the last person he’d ever want to hurt, afraid of him?
Zac’s determined to wipe the fear from the eyes of the woman who has never been far from his mind. And fix the mistakes—his mistakes—that put that look there in the first place.
But a predator has set his sights on Annie. And now survival skills will become much more than lessons…
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Entire series complete!
USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestselling author Janie Crouch brings you that perfect book you've been looking for to escape everyday reality—and a hero you can believe in. Don't miss this former-military warrior and the woman he'll risk everything to protect. Full length novel with no cliffhanger, no cheating, and a happily-ever-after guaranteed.
Guilty as charged.
Zodiac Tactical is the company that gave me a second chance. We guard, protect, rescue...eliminate the threat when nobody else can. And as a former SEAL, I’m good at those things. Good with weapons, good with missions.
But with people...not so good.
So when a gruesome enemy takes Bronwyn Rourke, one of Zodiac’s newest young recruits—with blue eyes that take up nearly her whole damn face—I shouldn’t take it personally. Shouldn’t allow her to consume my every thought and become my only mission.
They took her because they thought she was alone. Easy prey. That no one would fight for her.
They were wrong.
My code name is Virgo. And I will grind my enemy to dust to bring her home.
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USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestselling author Janie Crouch brings you that story you've been looking for to escape everyday reality—romantic suspense that will leave you breathless. She needs a hero. He'll have to remember how to be one. Dive in today!
A single dad, a warrior, a hero.
And the only person who can save Charlotte Devereux. The woman who once shattered his life.
When former Special Forces soldier Finn Bollinger is asked to help with an undercover mission, he's up for the task. His job teaching survival skills to civilians at Linear Tactical keeps him sharp, and he can still handle himself in the field.
But the Army damn well didn't teach Finn how to handle Charlotte Devereux. She's back and she's all sorts of bad news.
Charlotte can't change the past. Can't change the choices she made or the fact that they cost her everything. All she can do is endure the fallout. Even if that means putting her future in the hands of Finn, the man who has every right to want to destroy her.
And can in so many more ways than he thinks.
When Finn's undercover mission goes impossibly wrong, he'll have to depend on Charlotte's strength in order to survive. But everyone has a breaking point.
He's fighting for what's right.
She's fighting just to survive...
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USA Today bestselling author Janie Crouch brings you that perfect book you've been looking for to escape everyday reality. A protective alpha hero, who'll face down any danger for the woman he loves. Full length novel with no cliffhanger, no cheating, and a HEA guaranteed.
Jordan Reiss is well aware that if she was on fire the entire town of Oak Creek would probably go inside and make a sandwich. She can’t blame them. Her father scammed half the town out of their retirement funds, and then she…
She did so much worse.
She doesn’t expect forgiveness. But she’s back in town with no other options and just wants to be left alone to live on the fierce Wyoming land she’s missed so much during her six years in prison.
Former Navy SEAL Gabriel Collingwood's callsign may have been Angel, but he'll be anything but to protect his sister. Especially from a pretty ex-con who has somehow weaseled her way into a job at his sister’s new bakery.
He doesn't trust Jordan, even with her big gray eyes and quiet smile.
But when someone decides its time for Jordan to leave Oak Creek—preferably in a body bag—he'll have to put his distrust aside.
Jordan needs her own guardian angel. And Gabe happens to be one.
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USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestselling author Janie Crouch brings you that perfect book you've been looking for to escape everyday reality—and a hero you can believe in. Don't miss this gruff former-military warrior and the woman who needs a protector of her own. Full length novel with no cliffhanger, no cheating, and a happily-ever-after guaranteed.
Dylan Branson had once been one of Omega Sector's best agents. He'd walked away after tragedy struck too close to home and became a small aircraft pilot.
But when his old boss asks him for one last favor--fly in vital codes that could stop a terrorist attack and save thousands of lives--Dylan agrees. How hard could one delivery be?
Nobody told him the codes would reside inside the photographic memory of Shelby Keelan, a beautiful computer expert.
She's deep in a game she never wanted to play.
Shelby has always been better with numbers than people. Numbers don't hurt, they don't lie. And they definitely don't get grumpy at her merely for showing up at the airport like she was told.
But when someone tries to kill her, her bad-tempered sexpot of a pilot pulls out some impressive defensive skills. And a protectiveness towards her no one has shown in...ever.
Two loners will have to learn to trust each other to survive. And discover how to open their hearts before it's too late.
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USA TODAY bestselling author Janie Crouch brings you this reader-favorite, originally published in 2015 as Leverage. If you're looking for a protective alpha hero who knows what he wants, and a vulnerable heroine who finds her strength, you've got it in SECRET. Omega Sector... believe in heroes.
Violet Collingwood thought the windowless room where her kidnappers have held her for the past three days was the worst possible place she could be.
She’d been so very wrong. She's now arrived in hell.
Aiden Teague left covert ops behind with the Special Forces, but he's doing one last mission as a favor to a friend. He's undercover with the worst kind of scum to help stop the sale of classified documents.
But there's another kind of sale going on—and as soon as Aiden sees her terrified green eyes, he knows this mission just got a hell of a lot more complicated.
His codename has always been Shamrock. The lucky one.
He's going to need every bit of it to get them out alive.
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USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestselling author Janie Crouch brings you that perfect book you've been looking for to escape everyday reality—and a hero you can believe in. This protective alpha warrior won't leave her behind, no matter what. Full length novel with no cliffhanger, no cheating, and a happily-ever-after guaranteed.
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